Maternal health is a global priority, and significant progress has been made in reducing maternal mortality rates in recent decades. However, disparities ...

Cooking with such equipment has been found to contribute to 800,000 premature deaths per year, mostly due to household air ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is undergoing a sweeping digital transformation, and at its core sits the mobile phone. Far beyond the basic communication function, mobile technology is becoming the backbone of ...

An international team of researchers has made a key discovery: many children and young adults in Sub-Saharan Africa diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D) may have a different form of the disease—one ...

Sub-Saharan Africa saved money using mobile accounts in 2024, well above the 9% average in low- and middle-income countries. Mobile money accounts now fuel nearly 60% of formal borrowing in the region ...

Dutch investigative journalist Olivier van Beemen published In the Name of Nature: An Investigation into the Neocolonial ...

Hippos are dangerous — highly territorial and fiercely protective of their young. They are capable of capsizing boats and ...

Background The burden of cardiovascular events in Africa is projected to rise significantly in the coming decade, placing ...

U.S. President Donald Trump apparently aims to reassert his power to cause a full-blown economic catastrophe, perhaps ...

Conflicts over land and territory will likely proliferate as the accelerating climate crisis collides with rising ...

A massive cloud of Saharan dust has developed, stretching across nearly the entire Atlantic Basin.

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